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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-11-30 22:40:14 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-11-30 22:40:14 +0000
commitefa2f60ac78728002b12493e062e15320208739a (patch)
tree546d2bf7da77af592b07f7e949e197621fd36533 /share
parentd12ee03b0e1bbf64c4f8e1566731a09ff293606e (diff)
various clean up; ok schwarze
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/roff.726
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/roff.7 b/share/man/man7/roff.7
index b5528739259..983ab10906f 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/roff.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.4 2010/11/30 21:17:52 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.5 2010/11/30 22:40:13 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ language accepted by the
utility.
.Pp
Input lines beginning with the control characters
-.Sq \.
+.Sq \&.
or
.Sq \(aq
are parsed for requests and macros.
@@ -62,11 +62,12 @@ All manuals must have
.Ux
line terminators.
.Sh REQUEST SYNTAX
-A request or macro line consists of
+A request or macro line consists of:
+.Pp
.Bl -enum -compact
.It
the control character
-.Sq \.
+.Sq \&.
or
.Sq \(aq
at the beginning of the line,
@@ -355,11 +356,7 @@ Begins a conditional.
Right now, the conditional evaluates to true
if and only if it starts with the letter
.Sy n ,
-indicating processing in
-.Xr nroff 1
-style as opposed to
-.Xr troff 1
-style.
+indicating processing in nroff style as opposed to troff style.
If a conditional is false, its children are not processed, but are
syntactically interpreted to preserve the integrity of the input
document.
@@ -378,22 +375,21 @@ conditional.
Sub-conditionals, in this case, obviously inherit the truth value of
the parent.
This request has the following syntax:
-.Pp
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
\&.if COND \e{\e
BODY...
\&.\e}
.Ed
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
\&.if COND \e{ BODY
BODY... \e}
.Ed
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
\&.if COND \e{ BODY
BODY...
\&.\e}
.Ed
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
\&.if COND \e
BODY
.Ed
@@ -532,7 +528,7 @@ section itself.
Note that starting a new
.Xr mdoc 7
section with the
-.Cm Sh
+.Cm \&Sh
macro will reset this register.
.El
.Ss \&so